pc build (PC Upgrade) Is it worth the wait?

[SadlyNamedZed]

Budget (including currency): $4500

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: (Software)Blender, Zbrush, Marmoset Tool Bag, Unity and Unreal Engine5; (Games)R6Siege, Apex, DirtRally 2.0, WRC 10.

My current PC specs:

CPU: Ryzen 2600X

RAM: 16gb 2666MHz

GPU: GTX 1080

Mobo: Auros X470 Ultra Gaming

 

Is it worth the upgrade to Ryzen 7950X? and even get the RTX 4080?

Or is it better if i go with 5950X or 5800X3D and 3090ti, since that was my initial plan? or should I wait for November 3rd for Radeon?

also if i went with the 7950X options, should i get AIO and 1000watt psu?

[Dukesilver27-]

Depends, does any of your productivity software require CPU? or just GPU? If CPU is also used for those workloads, I'd go with 7950X instead of 5800X3D and a 4090. 5800X3D is not that great for productivity, it's for gaming.

The 4080 is not great for the price, might as well get the 4090, but I'd wait for independent reviewers to see the performance gain over 3090Ti.

 

[SadlyNamedZed]

17 minutes ago, Dukesilver27- said:

Depends, does any of your productivity software require CPU? or just GPU? If CPU is also used for those workloads, I'd go with 7950X instead of 5800X3D and a 4090. 5800X3D is not that great for productivity, it's for gaming.

The 4080 is not great for the price, might as well get the 4090, but I'd wait for independent reviewers to see the performance gain over 3090Ti.

 

Well between Blender which does need a better CPU, while UE5 needs a better GPU.
both ends at the amount of times needed to render, with my current setups they either crash or render for a while

[Dukesilver27-]

That answers it then, 7950X instead of 5800X3D. But beware, AM5 is a whole new platform, there ought to be some bugs and issues that would be discovered with mass adoption and will be fixed with time. So either be an early adopter or wait for those issues to be known and fixed.

[SadlyNamedZed]

11 minutes ago, Dukesilver27- said:

That answers it then, 7950X instead of 5800X3D. But beware, AM5 is a whole new platform, there ought to be some bugs and issues that would be discovered with mass adoption and will be fixed with time. So either be an early adopter or wait for those issues to be known and fixed.

that's what I'm afraid off, since this is very much new.

[apoKhallipsa]

46 minutes ago, SadlyNamedZed said:

Budget (including currency): $4500

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: (Software)Blender, Zbrush, Marmoset Tool Bag, Unity and Unreal Engine5; (Games)R6Siege, Apex, DirtRally 2.0, WRC 10.

My current PC specs:

CPU: Ryzen 2600X

RAM: 16gb 2666MHz

GPU: GTX 1080

Mobo: Auros X470 Ultra Gaming

 

Is it worth the upgrade to Ryzen 7950X? and even get the RTX 4080?

Or is it better if i go with 5950X or 5800X3D and 3090ti, since that was my initial plan? or should I wait for November 3rd for Radeon?

also if i went with the 7950X options, should i get AIO and 1000watt psu?

I would wait for next gen cause it gonna lower price of old generation perhaps 

[MadJ]

On 9/28/2022 at 4:25 AM, SadlyNamedZed said:

Budget (including currency): $4500

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: (Software)Blender, Zbrush, Marmoset Tool Bag, Unity and Unreal Engine5; (Games)R6Siege, Apex, DirtRally 2.0, WRC 10.

My current PC specs:

CPU: Ryzen 2600X

RAM: 16gb 2666MHz

GPU: GTX 1080

Mobo: Auros X470 Ultra Gaming

 

Is it worth the upgrade to Ryzen 7950X? and even get the RTX 4080?

Or is it better if i go with 5950X or 5800X3D and 3090ti, since that was my initial plan? or should I wait for November 3rd for Radeon?

also if i went with the 7950X options, should i get AIO and 1000watt psu?

I had the 2600 and got a 5950x for 150 bucks on the used market.
Those 2666mhz could be OC to 3200mhz depending on your dies but 16gb is waaaay to low.

If you can get a 5950x from the used market you should also get 128gb of ram, especially if you 
work with Scan Data for Environments or complex 3D-Characters. Aim for 3600mhz Cl-16.
The 5950x still does not feel enough but is far superior to your 2600x.
You can push to 300-350 million poly Characters if each sub tool has a subdivision level history.
Above that it gets a bit too laggy to work with when rotating.
Also the compilation time of your scripts is now so much faster and importing assets as nanite objects into unreal works without you taking a shower till it finished.

The 5800 x3d is shit for the type of workload you do.

Please keep in mind that you will need a good cooling solution for the 5950x or 7950x. The standard fan won't cut it and even just an noctua air cooler is not enough.
You need either an AiO (corsair, arctic) or you get a bunch of extra case fans like the arctic p12 and p14 PWM PST A-RGB. They are currently the best ones.


Your 1080 is on the edge of being okay. I would wait till the 4090 drops in price... so a year or so. Don't get an AMD card, because Nvidia still has the raytracing advantage, dlss 3.0 also and the 24gb vram are good for running stable diffusion for some concept art.